Routine testing is rare and most people don’t know how much PFAS is coursing through their circulatory system.
that PFAS used to manufacture the company’s Scotchgard coatings, and Teflon made by DuPont, build up in human blood, take years to leave the body and don’t break down in the environment.
PFOA and PFOS no longer are made in the U.S. In a statement, a 3M spokesman said levels of PFAS found in the environment do not pose risks to humans.Based on what researchers are finding, though, the chemicals 3M, DuPont and other manufacturers released into air, water and land for more than 70 years could endanger public health for decades to come. Some of the replacements for PFOA and PFOS are just as dangerous, if not more so, studies have found.
“This is a giant uncontrolled experiment on the public,” Leo Trasande, a researcher at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the study’s senior author, said about the spread of PFAS worldwide.Cincinnati attorney Rob Bilott already has won PFAS legal settlements against DuPont in Ohio and West Virginia.
“The public — those of us exposed to these poisons for decades without our knowledge and consent — should not bear the cost of the public health impacts when we already know exactly which companies caused this problem,” Bilott said in an email. “It is way past time to hold those responsible for the public health disaster they have caused.”
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